The Georgia Department of Education has approved new standards for the teaching of English and language arts that remove what’s left of Common Core standards.
For the next two years, K-12 teachers in ELA will be trained to teach to the new standards, which will formally go into effect by 2025 and will be incorporated into Milestones testing.
According to a Georgia DOE release, the standards “are intentionally designed to provide a strong literacy foundation beginning in the early grades, including the addition of a specific Foundations domain throughout the K-5 standards.”
They’re built around a concept called the “science of reading” and emphasize phonics in the earlier grades.
In 2022, only one-third of Georgia third-graders were regarded as proficient or better in Milestones testing.
In the Cobb County School District, more than 73 percent of third-graders were reading at or above grade level in the Milestones results.
Some elementary schools in East Cobb had among the highest percentages of third-graders surpassing proficiency levels of reading, at 90 percent or higher. But others struggled, including Sedalia Park (65.9 percent), Powers Ferry (62 percent) and Brumby (52 percent).
The standards come four years after an initiative was announced by Woods and Gov. Brian Kemp to phase out Common Core standards that have been in place since 2015.
The release said the new standards were developed with a broad base of input from educators, parents, business leaders, and others, and “feature built-in learning progressions across grade spans and within grade-level concepts, allowing teachers to remediate or accelerate learning as needed.”
The mathematics curriculum was changed two years ago to remove Common Core standards (details here).
The Georgia DOE issues a survey (results here) and began accepting public feedback on the ELA standards in November and issued another public response period in March.
“Knowing that early literacy is essential to all future learning, the standards place a strong emphasis on the fundamentals in the early grades,” Woods said in the release.
For more information on Georgia DOE curriculum standards, click here.
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